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Bridget Jones : mad about the boy Cover Image Book Book

Bridget Jones : mad about the boy / Helen Fielding.

Fielding, Helen, 1958- (author.).

Summary:

"Fourteen years after landing Mark Darcy, Bridget’s life has taken her places she never expected. But despite the new challenges of single parenting , online dating, wildly morphing dress sizes, and bafflingly complex remote controls, she is the same irrepressible and endearing soul we all remember—though her talent for embarrassing herself in hilarious ways has become dangerously amplified now that she has 752 Twitter followers. As Bridget navigates head lice epidemics, school-picnic humiliations, and cross-generational sex, she learns that life isn’t over when you start needing reading glasses—and why one should never, ever text while drunk. Studded with witty observations about perils and absurdities of our times, Mad About the Boy is both outrageously comic and genuinely moving. As we watching her dealing with heartbreaking loss and rediscovering love and joy, Bridget invites us to fall for her all over again."-- [Goodreads]

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  • ISBN: 9780385350860 :
  • ISBN: 0385350864 :
  • Physical Description: 390 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

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Subject: Jones, Bridget (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Single women > Fiction.
Genre: Diary fiction.
Humorous fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.

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  • Baker & Taylor
    A long-awaited third installment in the series featuring the beloved haphazard British heroine introduces readers to an engaging new phase of Bridget's life in contemporary London, where she faces the challenges of maintaining her sex appeal, engages in drunken texting and despairs of fitting into skinny jeans.
  • Baker & Taylor
    In a new phase of Bridget's life in contemporary London, she faces the challenge of maintaining her sex appeal, engages in drunken texting, and despairs of fitting into skinny jeans.
  • Random House, Inc.

    A GoodReads Reader's Choice

    Bridget Jones—one of the most beloved characters in modern literature (v.g.)—is back! In Helen Fielding's wildly funny, hotly anticipated new novel, Bridget faces a few rather pressing questions:

    What do you do when your girlfriend’s sixtieth birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s thirtieth?

    Is it better to die of Botox or die of loneliness because you’re so wrinkly?

    Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?

    Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice?

    Is it normal to be too vain to put on your reading glasses when checking your toy boy for head lice?

    Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant?

    Is it normal to get fewer followers the more you tweet?

    Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood?

    If you put lip plumper on your hands do you get plump hands?

    Is sleeping with someone after two dates and six weeks of texting the same as getting married after two meetings and six months of letter writing in Jane Austen’s day?

    Pondering these and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of loss, single motherhood, tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering her sexuality in—Warning! Bad, outdated phrase approaching!—middle age.

    In a triumphant return after fourteen years of silence, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, page-turning, witty, wise, outrageous, and bloody hilarious.


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